WHAT EATS LIZARDS?

There are many kinds, or species, of lizards, and most of them have a lot of predators, or natural enemies.

Many kinds of birds eat small lizards. Larger birds of prey such as hawks, owls and eagles hunt, kill and eat lizards. Snakes also eat them, as do many species of mammals such as weasels. Lizards even eat other lizards, with larger lizards eating smaller ones.

Life is not easy for most kinds of lizards.

As for, what does a lizard eat?—most eat vegetation and insects. A few eat amphibians and other small animals, and a few others eat carrion, or dead animals.

An OMNIVORE is an animal that mixes vegetation and other animals into its diet.

FOOD WEBS!

Food Webs Are Maps Of What Eats What, And Who Eats Whom! Below, You'll Find Links To Several Food Webs.

ALL FOOD ENERGY STARTS WITH THE SUN

A food web—every food web—begins with sunlight. Plants turn that sunlight into usable food energy, and that energy is transfered to the herbivorous animals that eat those plants. When those plant eating animals are themselves eaten by predators, the energy is transfered higher up the food chain and becomes concentrated in the bodies of the top, or apex, predators.
The apex predators return energy to the food web after they die and their bodies are consumed by scavengers, fungi and microbes.